RealBeauty.com offers comprehensive insider tips on makeup, beauty, and styling. I love searching through the archives, especially when I'm thinking about buying new face washes or foundation since my skin is so delicate, and perusing the columns on hair styling before I go to the salon so I know exactly … [Read more...]
Perfect the Pouty Lip
April 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My friends and I love those products that seem to sting your lips and make them plumper: it can be so tingly, but sometimes that starts to scare us. What exactly is in that pouty lip-plumper anyway? What is it that's stinging our lips and making the blood flow go crazy? Instead of searching through a … [Read more...]
Economics and Beauty: My Basket of Goods
March 25, 2010 By 2 Comments
The Thought: Ever heard of the Consumer Price Index (CPI)? It's a metric that is used by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics to approximate the average price of the basic goods and services that a household needs to operate. I'm a demographics nerd, so I'll avoid discussions of weighting … [Read more...]
Best Foundation for Ethnic Skin
August 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever went to a makeup counter at Macy's or some other department store only to find that all of their foundation tones seem to look too pasty on you? You're lucky if they tell you the truth. A lot of the classic, popular brands of makeup weren't really manufactured with dark skin in mind. Dark … [Read more...]
